AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +188%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740M

0.753 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GT 740M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2013

London

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GK208

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

GT 740M

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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